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Articles on student retention
Articles for the staff accountable for first-year and term-to-term retention: sector benchmarks, where co-curricular involvement fits, and how to plan retention work around the academic calendar.
5 articles on student retention.
Co-curricular involvement and student persistence: the link
Involvement correlates with persistence on every campus that measures it. The real question is which part you can build, and which part is selection.
Student retentionCommunity college retention: what to do with a 63% median
The median public two-year institution retains 63% of full-time students, 14 points below private four-year institutions. That gap is structural.
First-year retention tactics that fit the academic calendar
Most first-year retention plans fail on scheduling, not on strategy. Here is what fits into weeks one through fifteen when staff are already committed.
Student retentionRetention for commuter and online college students
Commuter and online students leave for structural reasons, not motivational ones. Four design changes reach them, and none is a virtual residential program.
Student retentionMeasuring the retention ROI of a co-curricular program
A retention ROI case that survives a CFO review needs a defined denominator, a comparison group that is not the institutional average, and staff time.